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Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
Finish
Commit
Write
Ends
Writing
Suspense
Condemn

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